So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!
People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.
Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.